why is it possible to look directly at the sun when it’s setting?

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I googled it and it came back that it is because the sunlight travels through dense atmosphere, please can someone explain what that is?

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It’s sort of like the thickness of a sheet of paper vs. the width of a sheet of paper. Now which orientation has more paper between two points?

That’s roughly an analogy for how much atmosphere the noon-day sun passes through vs. sunrise or sunset.

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